Date of Birth
22 April 1891
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Darrel Technical College, Richmond
Service number
3386
WW1 rank
Corporal
Queen Victoria Rifles, London Regiment, 9th Battalion
Date of death
6 June 1915
Location of death
Died of wounds, Hill 60
Buried/memorial
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord (Grave/Memorial reference: I. E. 140.)
Biography
Lance Corporal William Ewart Hopkinson was the son of John and Eliza Hopkinson. He attended Borough Road College for two years. Whilst at the college he played rugby and was a prefect. After college he became a teacher at Darrell Technical College, Richmond. He enlisted into the 9th Battalion Queen Victoria’s Rifles London Regiment on 1 November 2014 and travelled to France in Easter 1915. During his service he was gassed twice and wounded, before dying on 6 June 1915 aged 24.
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, BFSS/2/9/14/8 [BRCRU008], BFSS/2/9/3/8 [BRCPF008], BRCRU009, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), 1915 Annual Report, Commonwealth War Graves Commission